I am currently working on a murder mystery book. I never thought I would be able to write a lengthy one. I am more of a straight shooter and felt like what do you say besides someone was murdered and who did it? But in writing this story and it evolving, it has been fun to kind of drop clues along the way, red flags so to speak, until it all comes together to a crashing end.
I think the hardest part is being objective about what you are writing. I get so caught up in the characters and the story that it is hard to imagine what a reader would be sensing. Am I being too obvious about how it will unfold? Will the story hold someone’s interest? All those kinds of thoughts I try to push to the back of my mind so I can stay focused.
Writing a blog is easier because it is shorter in length, once you come up with a topic to write about. I think that is why I compiled, in my first book, a collection of my blogs. I thought it would be easy but in actuality, it was an incredibly time consuming project. Rewriting and editing those pieces was stressful; even with my editing and several others, when the book came out, reading it in its entirety I still found mistakes. And by then, the book was in many people’s hands. Oh, to admit we are human is a beautiful thing!
All this to say, as a reminder, we all have stories inside us. It is just a matter of taking the time to write them down in a coherent fashion. May you find one way or another to let your mind be imaginative! It will help keep you young at heart.
